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Jake Williams (@malwareJake) from CSR Group has more than a decade of experience with systems engineering, network defines, malware reverse engineering, penetration testing and forensics. He spent some good time looking at Cloud synchronization services and is presenting some findings in this talks. First of all, think of Dropbox (or any similar tools) as a […]

Good afternoon everyone, The next talk I will be covering today is presented by Zhenhua ‘Eric’ Liu, Senior Security researcher at Fortinet. Why doing this type of research. Facts : Exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities are more difficult today, because of OS security improvements and Sandboxing techniques implemented into various applications. Bypassing sandboxes often rely […]

Kyle Wilhoit, Threat researcher at Trend Micro, explains that he will provide an overview of ICS systems before looking at some interesting attacks at ICS systems. Concerns/Overview of ICS Security and Typical deployments ICS devices are used in production of virtually anything. They are used in water/gas/energy/automobile/manufacturing, etc. They are notoriously insecure in many ways. Software […]

Good morning friends, I’d like to welcome you back on this second day of BlackHat Europe 2013. Day 1 has been pretty interesting, so let’s see how day 2 goes (especially after Rapid7 and IOActive parties last night). I think there is no better way of starting the second day at a conference with – […]

Time flies ! After hanging out with @repmovsb and @botherder, it’s time for the last talk of the day. In the “To dock or not to dock, that is the question” talk, Andy Davis, research director at NCC Group shares his research around using laptop docking stations as hardware-based attack platforms. Why docking stations as […]

The first talk after having lunch at BlackHat Europe 2013, title “Hardening Windows 8 Apps for the Windows Store” is delivered by Bill Sempf (@sempf). Usually, the first slot after lunch is not really a gift to speakers as attendees tend to be busy digesting lunch at that time. Perhaps the absence of slides during the […]

The second talk I’m attending today is presented by Ben Williams, who’s going to talk about “Ironic exploitation of security products”. He explains that, as a pentester/researcher for NCC Group, he gets the chance to do fun pentests and break a lot of stuff. In the past year, he was able to work on auditing […]

Good morning everyone, Welcome to BlackHat Europe 2013 ! As announced in my post a couple of days ago, I’ll try to post short write-ups about some of the talks right after the presentation has finished. All you have to do is keep an eye on my Twitter feed to see when a new post is […]

Good morning, Since doing live-blogging seemed to work out pretty well yesterday, I’ll do the same thing again today. Please join in for day 3 at BlackHat Europe 2012, in a cloudy and rainy Amsterdam. The first talk I attended today was : “Secure Password Managers” and “Military Grade Encryption” on Smartphones Andrey Belenko and […]

Welcome back friends, at day 2 of BlackHat Europe 2012, held in the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in the wonderful city of Amsterdam. Today, I’m going to do things slightly different. I will try to post write-ups immediately after a presentation (and I’ll add in pictures later). I will basically update this page all the […]